by Margaret Atwood
There are nine short stories in this collection. I liked that the first three were somehow connected -- it gives a rare glimpse into an author's train of thoughts in (a larger) plot development, and how different characters' perspectives can come together to make a full-length novel.
In this one, Margaret Atwood deals with elderly topics of concern, such as assisted living, funerals, and falling. The first three stories were my favorite and served as a kind of trilogy, if you will. They are about the aging author of a fantasy series named Constance, and her early love affair ...
I loved "The Dead Hand Loves You" way more than I should've. I dig the old horror, just watched The Thing That Wouldn't Die last night. The tropes are amazing - the wide eyes, the unbridled lust! This collection is not a collection of short stories, it's a collection of smirks. Atwood is very smirky...
Margaret Atwood has always been on my radar, although due to my complete and utter laziness I hadn’t really explored her work all that much. I did eventually get to The Handmaid’s Tale a few months ago, and I was pretty impressed with it. And then I found out that she wrote one of my favorite short ...
Title: Stone Mattress Who Wrote It? Margaret Atwood, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale, the MaddAddam trilogy (Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood and Maddadam) and a host of other novels, short story and poetry collections (though, really, did I need to introduce her?). More at At...
Title: Stone Mattress Who Wrote It? Margaret Atwood, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale, the MaddAddam trilogy (Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Flood and Maddadam) and a host of other novels, short story and poetry collections (though, really, did I need to introduce her?). More at At...
I have enjoyed the author’s work in the past, but this book of short stories, not so much. The first three of the nine stories, Alphinland, Revenant and Dark Lady, were connected with common characters. All of the stories contained themes about lonely, unhappy people, perhaps misfits, who blamed oth...
Stone Mattress was a delight to read. I always find that Atwoods fiction shows the world in a light that is unlike any other. The stories draw us in, told by narrators of questionable authority and reliability, bringing us into possible past, current, and future lives. Reading the stories I am le...
Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, Moral Disorder, with stories that explore the complex interior lives of nine women, and their relationships with men. Filled with Atwood's sly wit, masterful plotting, and elegant prose, Stone Mattress is a literar...
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